The First Immortal of Destiny-Chapter 413: Payback_1
WHOOSH!
Shen Mo took out the Soul Refining Flag and shook it. Ten Class III variant Demon Soul Generals stepped out from the blood curtain one after another, flying in all directions.
Their reconnaissance range expanded instantaneously to a radius of about five to six hundred miles!
After confirming that there were no late-stage Spirit Sea Realm experts with soul fluctuations in this sea area and on the islands with human activity, Shen Mo had to command the Demon Soul Generals to collect more detailed and specific information.
Despite his incredibly powerful soul, the countless images, sounds, smells, and other information flooding back nearly overwhelmed him. His soul ached, and he was on the verge of suffering damage!
At this moment, the Scorching Sun Soul Phase, suspended high in his Mind Sea, radiated a blazing glow that nourished his soul and mended its injuries.
This operation was different from searching for Yuan Chengshan. The soul fluctuations of a late-stage Spirit Sea Realm cultivator are extremely strong and conspicuous. Comparing an ordinary human or low-class cultivator to them is like comparing a firefly’s light to the moon’s glow! When spiritual sense is spread far and wide to collect more information, their existence can be easily detected.
However, after Jiang Lingfeng took the Dreamy Death Pill, her soul fell into a state of Nirvana. Her soul fluctuations faded, becoming nearly imperceptible, even fainter than the light of a firefly or a candle...
Therefore, whether Shen Mo used only his own spiritual sense or commanded the Demon Soul Generals, he needed to gather more details to judge if she had appeared in this area.
This was why Shen Mo had previously commanded fifty Demon Soul Generals without much effort. Now, however, using only ten Demon Soul Generals, his soul was already overburdened. The reason was simply the massive difference in the information being gathered!
The same principle applied when pitting the Demon Soul Generals against enemies. Aside from the Soul Refining Flag consuming a vast amount of his Mana, Shen Mo also couldn’t precisely control each Demon Soul General. He could only issue orders and let them fight based on instinct.
Now, with the support of the Divine Soul Contemplation Scripture, there was no longer a risk of his soul being damaged while searching for traces of Jiang Lingfeng. 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝙚𝙬𝓮𝙗𝒏𝙤𝒗𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝒐𝓶
For safety’s sake, Shen Mo still ingested a few Soul Nurturing Pills.
The next moment, he scrutinized all the countless images, sounds, smells, and other information flooding into his mind.
Unfortunately, just as before, there wasn’t a single trace of Senior Sister Jiang...
There was no sign of her on the sea surface within a radius of five to six hundred miles. On the more than 1,400 islands with human activity, no one was discussing an "unconscious woman." Instead, news about Shen Mo had reached islands more than two hundred miles away!
At the same time, Shen Mo gained a better understanding of the situation here.
He discovered that cultivators also existed in the Wando Archipelago, but according to the islanders, these transcendent "Priests" were not decent people. They had a penchant for harming able-bodied men and women, using their souls and Flesh and Blood for cultivation!
Shen Mo also found this quite reasonable. The Wando Archipelago is located in the far reaches of the Immortal Burial Sea, even farther from the Red Flame Country and its coastal waters than the Suspended Fairy Mountain. The nature’s spiritual energy here is so sparse that it doesn’t even amount to one percent of that in ordinary regions within the Red Flame Country! Comparing it to the Cultivation Blessed Lands where the Five Great Sects were located was out of the question... Yet, the density of Spiritual Qi is crucial to the cultivation speed of low-class cultivators! Only after one has opened up the Spirit Sea is the impact considerably reduced. Low-class cultivators of similar talent cultivating on the outskirts of the Riverside Sect might advance from the beginning of cultivation to the peak of Body Tempering in just over ten years. However, if they cultivated in the Wando Archipelago, even spending one or two hundred years would hardly allow them to reach that Realm! The ancestors of the people on Wando Archipelago were most likely Human Cultivators who had escaped from the Red Flame Country, fleeing the Demon Disaster. It was not surprising that they possessed cultivation methods allowing them to advance their cultivation by using the Flesh and Blood and soul essence of creatures in place of Spiritual Qi!
As long as these so-called Priests don’t provoke me, I’m not interested in involving myself in their affairs, Shen Mo thought.
Since I can’t find Senior Sister Jiang here, I’ll have to look elsewhere!
Shen Mo waved his Soul Refining Flag and reeled in the ten Demon Soul Generals. Then, he transformed into a streak of faint gold spirit light, landing outside the Shell Reef House.
A little girl, about seven or eight years old, was carrying fish porridge into the stone house. Seeing him descend from the sky, she widened her eyes in disbelief!
Shen Mo gave a faint smile, patted her head, and said, "Xiaoyu, can you get your grandpa for me?"
The little girl, the old fisherman’s granddaughter, stared blankly for a moment before nodding. She then immediately took the fish porridge and ran towards her own home, stepping quickly.
「Half a day later,」
Under the astonished and reverential gazes of more than three hundred islanders, Shen Mo transformed into a rainbow of light, disappearing over the horizon.
Grateful for their help, even though he was burning with anxiety, he didn’t just leave abruptly.
After spending a little time, Shen Mo simplified and compiled the Dragon Elephant Blood Fiend Body into a low-grade profound level external magic method and taught it to the islanders.
Its efficacy and characteristics remained unchanged; it could still draw on the cultivator’s own Blood Qi and the origin power left behind after killing creatures to continuously strengthen their physical vitality!
However, the power attained after cultivating this method would be far inferior to the original version. When cultivated to the Bloody Fiend Body, its power would likely only reach the level of Shen Mo’s perfected Elephant Form.
The benefits, however, were clear: This recompiled cultivation method was easier to practice. Someone like Xiaoyu, starting young and cultivating diligently, could reach the peak of Body Tempering in twenty to thirty years, perhaps even glimpse the Qi Gathering Realm! Older individuals might not reach the peak of Body Tempering. However, cultivating to the middle-stage of Body Tempering and possessing physical vitality surpassing ordinary people would not be difficult.
To help them begin their cultivation, Shen Mo deliberately took out the Fire Chi Cauldron and Green Lotus Flame. He refined several batches of low-grade elixirs like Yang-strengthening Powder, Qi Blood Pills, and Minor Yuan Cultivation Pills, then gave them to the old fisherman.
He also instructed the islanders not to disclose any information about the cultivation method or the elixirs!
Concerning their own interests, Shen Mo trusted that they wouldn’t talk. As for whether they might stray onto a dark path in the future, harming other islanders for their cultivation... the possibility existed, but he deemed it unlikely. The origin power left in the Flesh and Blood and soul of a mortal after death is extremely weak. In contrast, the origin power obtained from killing a single Class I Sea Beast could be equivalent to that of thousands of mortals.
After all, the simplified Dragon Elephant Blood Fiend Body was quite different from the cultivation methods of the Wando Archipelago Priests. While the source of power growth might appear similar, their essence was fundamentally different! The Bloody Dragon-shaped Body directly absorbed external origin power, converting it into one’s own Blood Qi to strengthen the physical body! It wouldn’t generate conventional Spiritual Qi internally. Even refining elixirs or using Universe Bags and magic artifacts would rely on one’s own Blood Qi. Those Priests, however, directly used the Blood Qi and Resentment Qi released upon a creature’s death as a substitute for nature’s spiritual energy to advance their Cultivation Realm. The only difference from ordinary cultivators lay in the nature of the Spiritual Qi they refined! Influenced by this, most Priests’ personalities became distorted. In the cultivation world of the Red Flame Country, they would essentially be considered evil cultivators. As long as one didn’t tread an evil path and their mind wasn’t twisted, any normal person would know what choice to make! Of course, it couldn’t be ruled out that a few islanders with malevolent intentions might insist on slaughtering other mortals for their cultivation. That was something they would have to handle themselves. Shen Mo, after all, was not some grand figure of the Immortal Path; he couldn’t manage every detail, especially matters that might arise years, or even decades, later!
